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Email this morning from The Wilby Wonderful Team, re: Wilby Wonderful is my new favorite movie.

Dear [Dira],

Sorry for the late reply; it's been a busy fall for us!

Thank you so much for your comments on our film and our web site.

Good news: We have just today closed a deal with a US distributor. We will
post information on the US release on the tourism page of our web site
shortly. We also understand an article will appear in Variety on November
9, 2004.

Regarding your raging debate and point of minor curiosity: Paul Gross is not
in the group photo as he was not shooting on the day it was taken. The blue
T-shirts say "Camp Wilby" on the front, and "The Big Cheese" on the back...
in-jokes from set.

We really appreciate your support, and hope your friends in the US will
enjoy the film too!

Warmest regards,

The Wilby Wonderful Team


The tourism page is here. The website hasn't got release details for the US yet, but it does indicate that the DVD will be available in "early 2005."

And, er, to those I owe a recap... I still owe you a recap. My perfectionism seems to be bogging down the process.

And now for something completely different.

So you may or may not know that, in the weeks leading up to the election, I got kind of a little bit addicted to political blogs. Kos, Eschaton, Shrillblog, Wonkette - and even the non-political blogs I'd been reading before, like Making Light, had become largely political. I was reading them all the time. Checking and rechecking every hour or two, following all kinds of links all over the blogosphere...

Okay, so I don't really have the stomach to do that right now. I'm not checking out completely, but I'm not spending all day with them either. So now I need other things to fill the emptiness, and porn is only sometimes suitable.

So, my search for short-attention span frivolity has brought me to Go Fug Yourself, a blog of fugly fashion. Go on, click and be horrified in a way that doesn't leave you feeling sick to your stomach.

Er, unless your stomach is really fashion-sensitive. Then you might want to stick with something else.